The Importance of Scheduling

Rather than planning your time, plan your goals. Ignore specific timelines and instead focus on progressing toward your key goals.

For example, if you want to be President, you might choose to volunteer for local political activities, as opposed to taking a high-paying job in the private...

Time blocking is the practice of planning your day in advance, dedicating specific chunks of time to specific activities. Newport recommends this approach with several key principles:

• Begin each day with a blank template divided into 30-minute increments
• Assign...

 Set aside time to create order:

• Do any task that can be finished in less than one minute, without delay.
• Make a list of all the tasks you’d like to accomplish, and once a week, for just one hour, steadily work on these chores.
• Every time you transition from one stage t...